Apply for the Palestine Fellowship of the American Federation of Ramallah Palestine
Up to $5,000* Awarded to Grantees for Innovative Projects, Sponsored by the AFRP Educational and Cultural Exchange Mission. Deadline December 31, 2026.
You’re Invited to an AFRP Speakers Series Event
Meet the 2026 AFRP Palestine Fellows—Rami Kashou and Samar Husseini
Wednesday October 28, 2026 at 7 PM EST.
Learn more and find the Registration link below!
Globally recognized artists and designers, Rami and Samar, are recipients of the AFRP Palestine Fellowship 2026, an annual grant initiative of the Educational and Cultural Exchange Mission.
Their talk will explore how their Palestinian heritage informed and helped guide their paths toward successful creative careers. They will also share insights into their artistic collaborations in their Fellowship-supported exhibit, titled “Threads that Bind Us.” The mixed media and design show will open in 2027 at Michigan’s Arab American National Museum. A Q&A will follow the talk.
This is also an opportunity to learn more about the 2027 Palestine Fellowship call for proposals. Up to $5,000 per grantee is awarded for innovative ideas to support Palestinian-centered artistic, social, cultural and policy initiatives, among others. Applications are welcomed from the AFRP community as well as those with strong ties to Ramallah and Palestinian diaspora communities.
RSVP today to join this AFRP Speakers Series Event open to the AFRP community and guests.
New Narratives Engage Communities
The AFRP Educational & Cultural Exchange Fellowship 2025 Annual Report
The AFRP Educational and Cultural Exchange Mission has led and sponsored numerous missions and programs to Ramallah, Palestine for a wide range of American participants including journalists, educators, clergy, and political leaders since 2015.
It is also a founding sponsor of the PalTrek missions organized at Harvard University. Since 2017, we have provided travel support and developed programs in Ramallah for more than 850 graduate students and some professors from Harvard, Yale and other universities.
Through their own eyes, our grantees witness the daily injustices under military occupation and the apartheid practices committed against the indigenous Palestinian people in their homeland.
Our thought-provoking programs convene Palestinian leaders in government, politics, law, human rights, banking, science and the arts. Musical concerts, poetry readings, art exhibits and architectural tours also reveal a modern, resilient and resourceful culture that welcomes our grantees, who enjoy Ramallah’s legendary food scene and annual olive harvest.
To listen to our grantees, the missions are often life-changing experiences. They gain the confidence to speak from their lived experiences to impact policy-making, counteract mis-information and dis-information in the media about the people of Palestine, and amplify the demand for justice and equality – truly American and self-evident values – that guide our missions and support.
Our programs are also made possible with the generous sponsorship of our partners Al Taawon, Bank of Palestine and United Palestinian Appeal.
Yale Law School students and professors hear from a panel of distinguished Palestinian human rights lawyers and civil society representatives at a Mission lunch event in Ramallah.
